Jane Fonda

They have to be solved together, these two crises.

You can't have a stable democracy without a stable climate, and you can't have a stable climate unless you have a democracy.

I mean, what we're seeing now is worse and worse things happening vis-a-vis the climate.

Right.

So when I won the Lifetime Achievement Award at Screen Actors Guild, I did some research to find out what kind of resistance has been in existence in the entertainment industry.

And I was reminded that in the late 40s and early 50s, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and then later McCarthy, were destroying lives and careers in Hollywood.

Blaming people for, or accusing people of being friendly to communists, or anyway.

Hollywood created the Committee for the First Amendment.

My dad was a part of it.

And so in October, I thought, now's the time to recreate this.

Because, you know, if you look at the history of authoritarianism, they always first go for art.

They go after art and education.

Because...

Those are the sectors that affect how people feel, how they think.

We're the storytellers.

We can control the narrative to a large extent.

So we come under attack right away.

So we created this.

We now have over 3,000 members.

And we're being trained in how do you confront authoritarianism, because it's different.